The ARIN free pool runs dry, a new ARIN policy proposal seeks to remove all needs requirements for transfers, the North American IPv4 trading market continues to boom, and implementation of the new RIPE interRIR transfer policy promises to expand the global market.

The ARIN free pool runs on empty, RIPE officially opens the European region to interRIR transfers, and IPv6 continues its upward trend but still only predicted to account for 34% of global IP traffic by 2019.

RIPE NCC published a policy yesterday (April 9th) that will link the ARIN, RIPE and APNIC IPv4 markets. Ripe-644 allows inter-RIR transfers between the RIPE service region and other RIR regions, which will facilitate IPv4 sales between companies across regions.